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show preview: Fi & Ni Europe 2017
Fi Europe & Ni 2017 announces
record number of exhibitors
28–30 November, Frankfurt
The world’s leading food and beverage ingredients show will be bigger than ever when it opens its
doors on 28 November. With its new Expo FoodTec Content Hub, amongst other highlights, the
event will attract more visitors than ever before.
Fi Europe & Ni 2017 is the must
attend event on the calendar of
virtually everybody who works in
the food, beverage and ingredients
industry. This year, it will be the
biggest show to date. With a record
number of exhibitors, a four-day
conference programme focused on
thought leadership and new
sections and initiatives, organiser
UBM EMEA expects the event to
attract more visitors than ever
before, as well as ensuring they are
senior professionals with
considerable purchasing power.
Four halls spanning 65,000 square
meters of exhibition space will give
more than 1,500 suppliers a stage
from which to showcase every
conceivable food and beverage
ingredient sourced from all over the
world, including a vast range of
functional and organic raw
ingredients. Traditionally, suppliers
use the global industry’s leading
event to introduce their innovations
to the market. Exhibitors and
visitors will also benefit from the
new Expo FoodTec Content Hub in
the Expo FoodTec pavilion, uniquely
focused on ingredient processing
and packaging solutions for the
food & beverage industry. The Expo
FoodTec Content Hub is the hotspot
where speaker sessions,
presentations and videos from
leading experts and associations
will offer priceless insights on new
developments in F&B processing
and ingredients packaging.
Innovation on display
Across the event, visitors will be
able to explore state-of-the-art
innovations and gather insights into
current food and beverage trends
and developments. The Industry
Insights Theatre will focus on
current major consumer trends
influencing the global food and
Fi Europe conferences
offer an excellent
opportunity to find out
what leading food &
beverage industry
experts are thinking,
working on and
interested in
beverage market. Supplier
Solutions Sessions will see toplevel
suppliers showcase their
latest ingredients innovations, while
the Start-up Innovation Challenge
will create a platform for cuttingedge
innovations from the
industry’s most exciting start-up
companies. The New Product Zone,
organised in cooperation with
Innova Market Insights will return
once again to Fi Europe and finally
the Fi Innovation Awards are
introducing a number of new
categories to celebrate innovation
www.foodmagazine.eu.com issue four | 2017